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• Takes a new slant on an increasingly important development issue • There is a noticeable gap in extant literature concerning positive factors beneficial to rural women's leadership development. This book addresses that gap through a concentrated focus on the presence of such positive factors and the ways in which they contribute to the success of rural women in overcoming barriers to leadership. • The dynamic relationship of External and Internal Factors is highlighted through distillation into five Key Factors cited by rural women as not only supportive of their leadership development, but also as crucial to the development of aspiring rural women leaders.

CityServe will open your eyes to the possibilities of reaching your community through compassion ministry. Packed with real ministry examples any church can do, CityServe shows you how easy it is to equip and inspire your church to be difference-makers for Christ. Explore advice from leading compassion ministry experts on things like: •becoming a leader of influence in the community •adopting proven models for churches of any size •partnering with government and local businesses •acquiring funds and in-kind gifts What people are saying... I buy a book hoping for one good idea; CityServe has a hundred. Rick Bezet, pastor, New Life Church; co-founder Association of Related Churches (ARC) A tremendous resource in the critical work of embracing struggling families with the hope of Christ. Jim Daly, president, Focus on the Family I can't imagine a more relevant and important resource for churches. Edgar Sandoval Sr., CEO, World Vision U.S. It's a Chicken Soup for the Soul-type book that comes at a perfect time when businesses are encouraging workplace compassion. Anne Belier, founder, Auntie Anne's Pretzels With advice from forty leading experts in community-based and global compassion, CityServe gives you the ministry ideas and expert advice your church needs to change lives and impact your community.

This collection of prose writing from the pen of Dryden dates from 1668 to 1691, and contains work that the editors describe as'a sampler of Dryden as biographer-historian, political commentator, religious controversialist, literary polemicist, literary theorist, and practical critic. Among the works contained here is his'Essay of Dramatick Poesie.'